Word: edithe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week season will be distinguished by the performance of two complete Ring cycles, by the addition to the repertoire of Montemezzi's L'Amore del Tre Re and Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus. Among new singers will be Tenor Beniamino Gigli of the Metropolitan Opera, Soprano Edith Mason of the Chicago Civic Opera. Soprano Rosa Ponselle, sensation of last year, will return...
Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley was last week urged to buy blue dress uniforms for all Army enlisted men as a means of improving their morale, quickening their esthetic sense. The suggestion was conveyed to him by Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, relict of Representative John Jacob Rogers. Lowell textile tycoon. Lest anyone think she had the selfish motive of trying to help the textile industry, Mrs. Rogers explained: "Wartime khaki uniforms are drab and tiresome to the eye. . . ." Moreover, she pointed out, blue uniforms would call for black shoes, and orders for shoes are needed quite...
Says Poet Edith Sitwell of Poet Pope: "I may say, with the deepest humility, what Pope is reputed to have said of Dryden: 'Had I been born early enough, I should have known and loved him. . . . His principal fault was that he suffered from a constitutional inhibition against speaking the truth, save on occasions when, if we except the esthetic point of view, the truth would have been better left unspoken. But I have so often found both these faults in myself, that I do not dare to blame them...
...Significance. Author Sitwell thinks Pope was not only the most correct, most polished of English poets, but one of the greatest. Of late years the stock of the Romantics has slumped, that of the 18th Century has risen. Edith Sitwell has not said in this book that Pope is the greatest English poet, but soon someone will...
...Author. Edith Sitwell, sister of Osbert (TIME, March 3, 1930) and Sacheverell Sitwell, adult enfants terribles of literary England, is middleaged, skinny, wraithlike; "in early youth took an intense dislike to simplicity, morris-dancing and every kind of sport except reviewer-baiting, and has continued these distastes ever since." Other books: The Mother and Other Poems, Clowns Houses, Bucolic Comedies, Sleeping Beauty, Elegy on Dead Fashion...